Some leftist intellectuals distance themselves from local activism and accuse it of neglecting political goals and being insensitive to cultural problems. Their critique of activism is based on patterns drawn from modernization ...

The text presented is an attempt at summarizing French intellectual orientations influencing Polish regionalism. Phenomena that can be treated as heralding regionalism per se – the development of research on the history ...

The subject of these considerations is to recall the need to analyze categories on the border of cultural archaeology, such as “folklore” in the context of visual perception as “archeology” of not only seeing, but also ...

The article is the first attempt to familiarize with the possibilities of using the ethnogeographic method to present cultural diversification in a microscale (in the case of Cieszyn Silesia). Among other things in the ...

The article is an attempt to discuss the phenomenon of nostalgia in the paintings of Professor Marian Kępiński – artist and pedagogue of the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łodź. The nostalgia manifested in ...

The author of the article argues that archaic myths about Mother Earth do not die in our subconscious, especially the Greek myth of Gaia, who gave birth to everything up to heaven, the ocean and gods; it is later transformed ...

This article attempts to shed more light on the issues of historic values possessed by industrial architecture. Its source base results from the ethnographic research carried out by the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography ...

This text is the first study of the biography of the folk artist Zofia Danielak. Currently, she belongs to the oldest generation of folk artists from Krzczonów. So far, her activity has been rather poorly described, despite ...